A Surrey man is one of three gangsters
charged with the 2011 murder of Red
Scorpion Jonathan Bacon in Kelowna.

Colebrook Road

Another
body found
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Twenty-five-year old Jujhar Singh
Khun-Khun of Surrey has been charged
with first-degree murder and attempted
murder. Jason Thomas McBride, 37, and
Michael Jones are also charged. All three are
reported to have connections with the late

Sukh Dhak, who had been killed in a gang
shooting in Vancouver this past fall.
Bacon and several associates were shot at
during a busy day in Kelowna’s downtown
area in August 2011.
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Surrey’s rural Colebrook Road has
seen an extraordinary amount of death
in recent years.
The latest tragedy revealed itself just
after noon Sunday, when a motorist
found the charred body of 29-year-old
Delta resident Amritpal Saran, at the side
of the road.
“We’re still looking into the motive,”
Cpl. Adam MacIntosh, a spokesman for
the Integrated Homicide Investigation
Team, said of Surrey’s eighth murder this
year. “The reasons for his death remain a
mystery.”
MacIntosh said Saran, whose body was
found in the 12100-block of Colebrook
Road, was “known to police,” but to their
knowledge wasn’t associated to any gang.

The 2011 shooting killed Bacon and
injured those he was with. No passersby
were injured, but the boldness of the hit
reverberated throughout the province.
“This violent incident rocked the city of
Kelowna in an act so brazen it might have
been mistaken for an action movie,” said
Combined Forces Special Enforcement
Unit Chief Supt. Dan Malo during a news
conference to announce the arrests. “We

were all appalled by the public nature of this
reckless act.”
According to Malo, since Bacon’s death,
investigators had been working around the
clock to tie people to the case, culminating
in Monday’s announcement.
“We’ve had over 50 investigators on this
case (at any given time),” said Malo.
All three suspects are known to police and
have ties to various criminal organizations
throughout the province.
“All three individuals charged have in

the past been associate to several different
groups,” said Malo, noting that it would
be difficult to describe any of them as
belonging to just one group.
Khun-Khun has been shot at twice in the
past, once in September 2011 and again last
month while out with other gang associates.
He also has a number of incidents on his
record, including having been arrested in
Abbotsford in relation to a shooting and
having been pulled over in August 2011 with
a cache of drugs and $1,700. In 2007 Khun-

Khun was also convicted of kidnapping
following an incident that involved him
holding a person hostage at gunpoint for
several hours.
“In my many years investigating gangs
and criminal cases, the one thing that
always stands out is that organized crime
groups do attract broken people,” said Malo.
“They’re looking for connections, love and
acceptance. They demand loyalty and give
little in return.”

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The New Democrats have their MLA
candidates all selected in Surrey’s eight
provincial ridings and Delta North while the
governing Liberals have yet to secure two more
candidates, and the Green Party and B.C.
Conservatives still have to find seven more
candidates each.
The NDP will be fielding four incumbents in
Surrey, and the Liberals two. Three incumbents
– Kevin Falcon (Liberal, Surrey-Cloverdale),
Dave Hayer (Liberal, Surrey-Tynehead) and Guy
Gentner (NDP, Delta North) – have decided
not to seek re-election in the May 14 provincial
election.
With no incumbent running, four local seats
– Delta North, Surrey-Cloverdale, SurreyPanorama and Surrey-Tynehead – are wide open.
Here’s who is running, as of press time: In
Surrey-Whalley, NDP incumbent Bruce Ralston,
a lawyer by trade who was first elected in 2005,
will be challenged by Liberal Kuljeet Kaur, who
works as a realtor and Punjabi radio talk show
host.

So far, two Delta municipal councillors are
vying for Delta North: Scott Hamilton (Liberal)
and Sylvia Bishop (NDP).
For Delta municipal councillors, an eventual
run for provincial office seems to be the thing to
do. Before he was elected MLA, Gentner was a
Delta councillor, as was incumbent Delta South
Independent Vicki Huntington, not to mention
the man hoping to unseat her, Liberal candidate
Bruce McDonald.
Meanwhile, Liberal cabinet minister Stephanie
Cadieux, first elected in Panorama in 2009,
hopes to pick up where Falcon left off in SurreyCloverdale. Her NDP rival Harry Kooner, a City
of Surrey employee, won the NDP candidacy for
Cloverdale on Sunday, at a nomination contest
attended by about 850 people.
The Green Party of B.C. continues to look for
a candidate for Surrey-Cloverdale after Dave
Blair, who planned to run there, died of cancer
two weeks ago.
New Democrat incumbent Jagrup Brar
(2004) is seeking re-election in SurreyFleetwood, challenged by Liberal candidate and
Langley City Mayor Peter Fassbender, and B.C.
Conservative Murali Krishnan – a notary public.

The NDP’s Amrik Mahil will try to take
Surrey-Panorama Ridge back from the Liberals,
who have not yet chosen a candidate after
former MP Sukh Dhaliwal dropped out of the
race. Sara Sharma is the Green candidate in
Surrey-Panorama.
Liberal MLA Gordon Hogg, first elected in
1997, is seeking re-election in Surrey-White
Rock, challenged by the NDP’s Susan Keeping.
Incumbent NDP MLA Sue Hammell (2005,
and 1991 to 2001) will campaign to secure her
seat in Surrey-Green Timbers. So far, her only
rival is Green candidate Richard Hosein.
Finally, the NDP will defend Surrey-Newton,
where incumbent Harry Bains is being
challenged by Liberal candidate Sukminder Virk
and Conservative Satinder Singh, a financial
advisor. In Surrey-Tynehead, the NDP’s Avtar
Bains will square off against Langley RCMP
Insp. Amrik Virk, who is running for the
Liberals there.
B.C. Conservatives leader John Cummins
says his party will “absolutely” run a full slate in
Surrey. “We’ve got prospects I think in most,” he
said Monday.

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charged with
stabbings
A 23-year-old Surrey man
is facing multiple assault
and weapons-related
charges after three people
were stabbed in Vancouver’s
Chinatown on Friday night.
The suspect’s name had
still not been released by
press time and a judge had
ordered a publication ban
on evidence presented at a
bail hearing Saturday.

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A Delta dad who led a
revenge posse against a
Grade 9 kid who beat up
his teenaged son at a Delta
high school in 2009 has lost
an appeal of his six-month
prison sentence.

A publication ban
prevents the printing of
his name because it would
identify his son. There is
also a publication ban on
anything that would identify
the youths involved in this
case.
The Crown had argued
for a prison term of 10 to
12 months for the man but
provincial court Judge Paul
Dohm sentenced him to six
months in prison, two years

probation and 50 hours
community service after
finding him guilty of two
counts of assault causing
bodily harm.
The crime happened
outside a secondary school,
the name of which was not
revealed by the court.
The court heard the man
had gone to the school with
his Grade 10 son and two
other youths, hunting for a
Grade 9 boy who punched

his Grade 9 son.
“The accused orchestrated
a planned attack by
armed men on a teenage
boy in order to revenge a
schoolyard punch to his
son’s face,” Dohm said at the
time of sentencing.
“The attack was brazenly
carried out just off the
school grounds in front
of many impressionable
teenagers. The assault was
unprovoked and vicious

resulting in bodily harm.”
When a Good Samaritan
tried to intervene, Dohm
noted, the dad “responded
by savagely assaulting that
young person in a manner
designed to cause injury and
pain, which in fact resulted.”
The court heard that
the dad head-butted the
Good Samaritan in the face,
chipping the individual’s
tooth and splitting his lip.
The Grade 9 victim

suffered cuts and bruises,
a goose egg on his head,
multiple contusions to his
upper body, a swollen nose
and black eyes. After the
dust settled, the dad said
to the teen “Are we all even
now?”
Chief Justice Lance Finch
dismissed the dad’s appeal.
“I cannot say the sentence
is unfit,” he said.

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Homicide investigators
hope people who know who
killed Janice Shore will “dig
deep” and call police, Cpl.
Bari Emam said.
“Information is starting
to come in at a slow pace,”
he said.
The spokesman for
the Integrated Homicide
Investigation Team noted
at a press conference last
week that it’s “extremely
important” for Shore’s
family to get some closure.
“This is the time we need
your help,” Emam said.
“This is the time to come
forward.”
Shore, 45, died on Feb.
18 of head injuries she’d
sustained in a vicious attack
more than two months
ago. She was clinging to life
when a passerby found her
in a vacant lot in the 13500block of 106th Avenue, on
Dec. 2, in Whalley.
Police didn’t get a chance
to interview her as she had
been in a coma since the

assault.
During a press conference
Thursday, Emam read a
statement from Shore’s
family. Her childhood was
as normal as anyone else’s,
they noted, though she
battled with mental illness
most of her life.
“We never thought she
would die under such
horrible circumstances,” her
family said. “She did not
deserve to die in such a way.”
They noted Shore was
“distanced” from most
of her family for many
years. She is survived by
three grown children, two
brothers and a sister.
Surrey RCMP Cpl. Bert
Paquet said police believe
Shore was involved in
certain “high-risk activities”
but he wouldn’t specify
what they were.
“The investigators
continue to believe that the
general public is not at risk.”
Police ask anyone with
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Police have yet to identify a suspect in the killing of a
Whalley man whose body was found inside a car that had been
parked in front of a Newton elementary school for days on end.
Vimal Chand, 29, was last seen leaving his family’s home in
Whalley on Saturday, Feb. 16 and was reported missing to the
Surrey RCMP on the following day.
It was believed Chand was driving his family’s car, a grey
2000 Toyota Corolla with B.C. licence plate number 948 FTP.
Police said a resident found Chand’s body early Wednesday
evening, inside a car that had been parked at 66th Avenue and
140th Street, across from Hyland Elementary school. The car
had been there for four days.
“As to why it wasn’t discovered earlier, I can’t really
comment,” IHIT Cpl. Bari Emam said.
He wouldn’t confirm if Chand’s body was found in the
family car, or where it was seated. Police are also holding
back the cause of death, Emam said. Nor would he reveal if
investigators believe Chand died inside the vehicle, or was
killed on site.
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Saran’s body was found a mere two blocks
way from where the body of Jaskaran Singh
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Sandhu’s body was discovered in the grass
beside Colebrook Road, in the 12300-block,
after police received a 911 call.
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suicides, sexual assaults and stabbings.
❚ In March 2009 shooting victim Marc
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19500-block of Colebrook Road.
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NDP faces
interesting
budget call
InTheHouse
Keith Baldrey

T

he evidence is in:
British Columbians
have collectively hit
the “off ” switch to anything
the B.C. Liberal government
has to say.
Nothing the B.C. Liberals
have tried for months has
improved their standing
with voters, who now
appear firmly entrenched in
the anti-B.C. Liberal camp.
The multi-million
taxpayer ad campaign that
made questionable boasts
about job creation has been
a dud.
The nasty attack ad on
NDP leader Adrian Dix has
had no impact.
The throne speech was
a flop. The budget fell flat
with the public, who appear
to have collectively flipped
the “off ” switch on anything
the government has to say.
Two recent polls back up
these assertions.
One, by Ipsos-Reid,
showed that just 12 per
cent of those knew the
government had tabled a
new budget believed the
government when it claimed
it was “balanced.”

The latest Angus Reid
poll provides a mountain
of findings that show the
B.C. Liberals continue to
be mired in a swamp of
negativity from voters. The
party trails the NDP by 16
points, and has lost about
one-third of the people who
voted for it in 2009.
Most tellingly, the Angus
Reid poll showed that 59 per
cent of the electorate want a
new government. That is an
astounding figure, one that
must send shudders through
the B.C. Liberal camp.
But the governing party is
pressing on, and has decided
to make its alleged fiscal
prowess the central theme of
its election platform.
You may well ask how
a government that has
wracked up four deficits
in a row (and maybe even
five) and almost doubled
the provincial debt can
expect to be re-elected on
a platform that says it’s the
only party to be trusted
to manage government
finances properly.
Yet that is precisely the
seemingly contradictory
argument the B.C. Liberals
are putting forth as we head
toward the election.
Unfortunately for the
ruling party, its track record
for managing finances is
hardly a stellar one.

Despite their claims of
being financial geniuses,
the B.C. Liberals have
brought home seven deficit
budgets during their time in
office, and have pushed the
provincial debt level from
$34 billion when they were
first elected to $63 billion
next year.
And since absolutely
nothing has worked for
the B.C. Liberals, there is
little reason to think the
public is going to suddenly
start listening to their
arguments about financial
management.
The only variable left in
the game has nothing to do
with the B.C. Liberals.
Instead, it’s all about the
NDP. Only a major stumble
or scandal in the NDP
camp is likely to derail their
election chances. The gap in
popularity between the two
parties is so huge that only
a self-inflicted wound can
take the NDP out.

The NDP is constantly
battling its stereotyped
image as a left-wing, taxand-spend party. Certainly,
its time in office in the
1990s won’t help it dispel
that image, as it raised taxes
considerably and balanced
the books a mere two times.
And now the NDP
is facing an interesting
challenge. After branding
the B.C. Liberals’ latest
budget as “phony” and
“bogus,” it can hardly put
the same fiscal plan in front
of voters.
It’s more than likely
the NDP will have to put
forth a budget that shows
a deficit next year, not a
“phony” surplus like the
B.C. Liberals’ plan. The key
question may be, just how
high a deficit can the party
get away with?
I suspect something
less than a $500 million
deficit may strike voters as
reasonable. After all, the

current fiscal year shows a
$1.3-billion deficit on the
B.C. Liberals’ watch, so a
reduction of almost twothirds may prove acceptable.
But how the NDP gets
to that figure is unclear
and perhaps problematic.
They’ve condemned the
government’s sell-off of
$475 million worth of assets
and its taking of a $245
million dividend from B.C.
Hydro, plus it has suggested
health care is about $235
million short.
It adds up to a deficit of
about $750 million, which
may strike some as too high

(and I haven’t even included
the various demands from
NDP caucus members to
increase spending in other
areas; party leader Adrian
Dix would be wise to muzzle
his caucus’ spending calls).
Of course, none of this
may matter.
If the general public keeps
that “off ” switch to anything
the B.C. Liberals have to say,
that big gap between them
and the New Democrats
won’t be closing come
election day.
Keith Baldrey is chief political
reporter for Global BC

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Immigrant job funding a slap in face
The Editor,
Re: “Immigrants have ally,” the Now, Feb. 21.
Seriously? Funding for newly landed
immigrants to the tune of $667,000?
I certainly agree that everyone should
have an opportunity to work, but to have
the way paved is an outright slap in the
face to all the educated, capable taxpaying
residents who are getting the shaft watching
jobs pulled out from under them and taken
by newcomers.
Once again, the city of Surrey has ceased
to amaze me by welcoming immigrants and
refugees with open arms while shoving aside
the right person for the job.
I wonder what the reaction would be
if I, a born and raised British Columbian
who only speaks English, went to a foreign
country and had help taking a job from a
local? Shame on you Surrey.
Blair Martin, Cloverdale

Thanks for supporting
blues in White Rock
The Editor,
Re: “Powder Blues Band still doin’ it right,
just less often,” the Now, Feb. 7.
On behalf of the White Rock Blues
Society, I want to express our gratitude to
Tom Zillich and the Now for covering our

show at the Pacific Inn Resort on Feb. 16.
On the Thursday before the long
weekend, as B.C. celebrated its first
Family Day, Tom wrote an interesting and
informative article after interviewing Tom
Lavin of Powder Blues Band fame and his
efforts to help the next generation of blues
artist, James “Buddy” Rogers.
On the following Tuesday – the first day
we could determine what our online ticket
sales status was at the Surrey Arts Centre
– we found an additional 60 tickets had sold
since the previous Friday. Within another
two days, we had sold out the show.
As a non-profit organization, our funding
is limited to 20 per cent of ticket sales after
fixed costs, with 80 per cent going to the
artists.
Our mandate is to keep the blues alive.
Without your paper’s interest and support
for the arts, people wouldn’t be made aware
of the live music events taking place in our
community.
Even though we have a weekly newsletter
going out to more than 650 blues fans, that
hardly scratches the surface of the number
of music fans out there.
Tom’s article reached many interested
readers who bought tickets and made the
show a huge success. Many thanks for the
work you do in servicing the community.
Rod Dranfield
President, White Rock Blues Society

Wi-Fi ‘allergy’ is not
accepted as condition
The Editor,
Re: “Some students allergic to Wi-Fi, says
Surrey dad,” the Now, Feb. 19.
The self-described medical condition
is not accepted by the entire medical
community... not yet.
Quoting from Wikipedia: “...self-described
sufferers of electromagnetic hypersensitivity
are unable to distinguish between exposure
to real and fake electromagnetic fields, and
it is not recognized as a medical condition
by the medical or scientific communities.”
Sources are on the Wiki page. Perhaps an
unbiased article would have mentioned that.
James Hogan
Vice Principal, Surrey Connect

Money for mailouts
could be better spent
The Editor,
I want to complain about Russ Heibert
and his lame mailouts. I have received so
many over the years... and now he is asking
peoples opinions on abortion?
Another thing – what is the cost of these
mailouts? I wonder, if all local Conservative

MPs redirected the monies used to send
these useless mailouts and devoted it to the
closed down coast guard station, could it be
saved from the chopping block?
Wayne Collins, Surrey

Taxpayers shouldn’t
subsidize child care
The Editor,
Re: “Don’t make me pay for your child’s
daycare,” the Now letters, Feb. 19.
Thank you for printing this letter. Too
often, papers print one-sided letters and the
average taxpayer is forgotten. Our family’s
taxes already pay for low-income families
(that qualify) for a $35-a-day subsidy per
child for daycare. Sure, it would be great if
childcare was subsidized but what seems to
not be mentioned is the money comes from
us, the taxpayer. Nothing is free.
Childcare is expensive. My choice was to
stay home, raise our children and live off my
husband’s salary. It is not easy, but we live
within our means. I love being a stay-athome mom and I realize not everyone can
do what I do, but that’s my job – to raise my
children. It’s not my job to pay for you to
have someone else watch yours.
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LEFT: Four-year-old pals
Brody (left) and Tristan
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Social” special event for
kids Tuesday, Feb. 19
at Kensington Prairie
Community Centre.
(Photo: LISA KING)

ABOVE: Cadet Daniel Colosie (right), of Surrey, and the 767 Dearman Air
Cadet squadron flip pancakes Saturday, Feb. 23 during a charity breakfast
served to low-income people in the Whalley area, at the corner of 135th Street
and 106th Avenue. (Photo: GORD GOBLE)
RIGHT: Former City of Surrey councillor Judy Higginbotham and Gordon
Hogg, MLA for Surrey-White Rock, attended an Oscar awards party Sunday,
Feb. 24 at 5 Doors Down restaurant and bar, on Marine Drive. For more
photos from this event, a fundraiser for Royal Canadian Theatre Company
programs, see the Around Town feature in this Thursday’s edition of the Now.
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LEFT: Rotary Club of North
Delta members Lornell
Ridley and John Shepherd
move dictionaries for
delivery to Grade 3 students
in the area.
In North Delta, Rotarians
have been busy distributing
more than 800 dictionaries
to every Grade 3 student in
the area, at 14 elementary
schools.
Project organizer Lornell
Ridley said it’s an amazing
experience to stand at
the front of a classroom

and hand out a Rotary
dictionary to every child.
“For some students, it is
their first personal book,”
Ridley stated. “This is our
club’s commitment to the
children of North Delta.
Without exception, the
principals, teachers and
students are delighted

A new, state-of-the-art music room is a
key part of a construction project at Regent
Christian Academy in Surrey.
A Performing Arts and Technology Centre
will be built at the school over the spring and
summer months.
The $800,000 project involves new space
for performing arts disciplines, including a

to receive their gift of a
dictionary – it is theirs to
keep.”
Rotary’s international
Dictionary Project, founded
in 1995, has delivered more
than six million dictionaries
to kids around the world.

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recording studio, band rehearsal space, a studio
theatre and sound stage.
“It’s very exciting for the school,” said Jamie
Garland, director of development at Regent.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held
Friday, Feb. 22 at the school, located at 15100
66A Ave. For updates and more details, visit
www.regent.bc.ca.

“When I had my stomach removed five
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total wreck. Thanks to you for developing
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A yearly book sale and
hundreds of donated
dictionaries are keeping a
pair of local Rotary clubs
busy this month.
The “Big Book Sale”
hosted by the Rotary Club
of White Rock is set to run
for a week at Semiahmoo
Shopping Centre, from
March 3 to 10.
Volunteer-staffed tables
will be filled with a wide
variety of donated books at
the annual sale, which has
raised close to $1 million
during its 31 years.
“This money has assisted
local organizations in
providing services to the
old, the young and the
challenged,” Ramona
Kaptyn, the club’s
communications rep, told
the Now.
Books donated for the
sale can be dropped off at
the shopping centre, in a bin
near the Cobs Bread store.
For more details, visit www.
whiterockrotary.org.
“Often rare old editions
are amongst the donations,”
Kaptyn noted. “They are
treated with great respect
and heartfelt thanks, as they
fetch good prices. Most of
the other books are very
reasonably priced, generally
selling at three for $5.”

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VOLUNTEERING
Learn With a Friend program:
“Want to make a difference in
someone’s life? Volunteer as a tutor

with Surrey Libraries’ Learn with a
Friend program, which offers free,
one-to-one tutoring for adult learners
(ages 19+). Learners are paired with
a tutor and receive individualized
tutoring specific to their needs and
interests. Tutor and learner meet for
approximately one to three hours per
week in a public space, such as a
library.” For more information, visit
www.surreylibraries.ca/about/5393.
aspx or contact Eva Touzard at eva.
touzard@pics.bc.ca.

Surrey Memorial Hospital needs
volunteers in a wide variety of areas.
For details or to apply, call 604588-3381 or email volunteer.smh@
fraserhealth.ca.

at house in North Delta. No cost to
registrants for the 12 weeks (three
hours per week). Info: 604-943-1878,
www.delta.cmha.bc.ca.

HEALTH

CLUBS/GROUPS

“Eating Disorders: Change is a
Journey”: Psyche-Ed group series,
for people struggling with anorexia
nervosa, bulimia and EDNOS, to be
hosted in March by Delta branch of
Canadian Mental Health Association,

North Surrey Horticultural
Society now meets monthly from
March to October on the third
Monday of the month (new schedule)
in basement of Grace Community
Church, 14618 110th Ave., 7:30 p.m.

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CHARITABLE SOCIETY

Our City is home to over 70
charitable organizations doing
work on behalf of the residents
of our city. Help us to give where
we live.

The Surrey Slamfest Wrestling Program was initiated in 2001
after Daniel Igali won Canada’s ﬁrst ever Olympic Gold medal
in Wrestling. It began with twelve students at one school and
the program now reaches over 2,000 youth in Surrey’s schools.
Slamfest Wrestling has expanded into an annual tournament as
well as various wrestling camps and workshops for elementary
students. The Slamfest program was developed as a ‘Stay in
School Youth Program’ for at-risk students, and has made a
positive difference in many lives.

“We have guest speakers, workshops,
plant sales, draws, a show bench and
lots of gardening information for new
and experienced gardeners.” Info:
Jean, 604-581-3210.
Guildford Lions Club seeks new
members for its work on various
community projects. Club members
meet on second and fourth Tuesdays
of the month at Boston Pizza, 15125
100th Ave., 6:30 p.m. Info: Call Gem,
604-584-4449 or 604-785-4070.
MSOS (Mixed Singles Over
Sixty): This social club, for active
men and women 60 years and over,
welcomes new members –
companions for walking, golf dining,
dancing, theatre, travel, more. Info,
contact Pat at 604-531-3065 or
Colin, 604-538-7799. Info: www.
senioroversixtyclub.weebly.com.
Surrey Trekkers Volkssport
Club offers walks mid-week and
weekends for adults of all ages,
for fun, fitness and friendship. Info:
Call Sandi at 604-584-2980 or visit
www.surreytrekkers.com.
North Delta Newcomers and
Friends: “Ladies in North Delta,
are you new to the area or would
just like to meet some new friends?
Call to attend meetings and/or one
of our other activities (morning
walks, coffee gatherings, golf and
card games, stitch and chat, book
club).” Call Kathy at 604-583-3691,
Pam at 604-597-7974 or e-mail at
ndnewcomers@hotmail.com.
Delta Diggers Garden Club: Group
meets every third Thursday at 7:30
p.m., from February to November, at
Kennedy Seniors Recreation Centre,
11760 88th Ave., North Delta. New
members welcome. 604-535-2642.
CFUW (Canadian Federation
of University Women) North
Delta/Surrey is a club open to all
women graduates, students and
associates who support the mission
and ideals of CFUW, and represent
many countries. The club provides
annual scholarships and bursaries
to deserving female graduates who
are going on to university. Monthly
meetings (September to June).
Contact Heather at 604-591-7678 or
Eleanor at 604-589-3631.
Ubuntu Ogogo: “Compassionate
grandmothers” group meets on
second Wednesday of month at
Fleetwood Villa, 16028 83rd Ave.,
from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Info: 778565-3555, bwarren567@shaw.ca.

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Surrey students and anti-bullying
supporters are gearing up to look pretty in
pink this Wednesday, Feb. 27 for the sixth
annual Pink Shirt Day.
Created as a way to show solidarity
against bullying, Pink Shirt Day is a
Canada-wide initiative started when two
teens in Nova Scotia stood up against bullies
in their school by wearing pink shirts when
a fellow student was bullied for sporting the
same colour.
Since then, the anti-bullying movement
has spread, and has now become an
annual event with the ultimate goal of
raising awareness and eliminating bullying
everywhere.
“Pink Shirt Day is a great opportunity
for us to engage the community and

raise awareness about bullying and the
devastating effect it can have on people,”
said Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts. “Bullying
should not be tolerated in schools,
workplaces, online, or anywhere in our
communities. And we want everyone to
know there is help and support available to
those who are being bullied.”
In Surrey, the official pink shirts will sport
a design by Guildford Park student Bea
Venzon following a city-wide contest held
last month by the Surrey school district.
“It’s just that bullying is one small thing
that could have lifelong repercussions for
people so preventing it would have such an
impact on someone’s life,” said Venzon at
the time. “Nobody deserves to get bullied
for their race, sexual orientation, financial
status, disability, gender, religion, perceived
subculture or for anything at all.”
For more information on how to get
involved and to obtain an official pink shirt,
go to www.pinkshirtday.ca. Proceeds will go
toward various anti-bullying initiatives in
British Columbia.

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Contest winners will be announced on
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Finalists have been announced for this
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The finalists in the junior category are
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North Delta
WRITERS, READERS MEET FEB. 27

The Delta Writers’ Reading Series returns
to George Mackie Library on Wednesday,
Feb. 27, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 8440 112th St.
Everyone is invited to an evening of
readings featuring the works of emerging
and published Fraser Valley authors, literary
fun and prizes. Lois Peterson will be the
guest author. “Have a cup of coffee or tea
and some goodies while you listen to poems,
short stories, novel excerpts and more.”

HERITAGE AWARDS FOR DELTANS

As part of Heritage Week events in
Delta, several people and organizations

were given awards.
Mayor Lois Jackson recognized
recipients of Delta’s Heritage Awards on
Feb. 18 at a meeting of council at Kennedy
Seniors’ rec centre in North Delta.
Heritage awards of merit went to
Lawrence Guichon (for the ongoing
maintenance and care of the Guichon
residence in Ladner) and Susannah
Alexander and Edward Evans (for
preservation of the Knight residence in
North Delta).
Friends of Heritage awards were given
to Tim Bowling (for his writing on Delta’s
early fishing industry), James Price and

Mike Wolzen (for donating their time
and expertise to projects related to Delta’s
heritage barns) and Delta Museum and
Archives (for spearheading the Mapping
Project and working with community
partners to map historic places of
importance in North Delta).

BABY, THIS IS YOUR FAIR

North Delta rec centre plays host to a
baby fair on Saturday, March 2 from 9:30
a.m. to 1 p.m., at 11415 84th Ave.
Expectant parents, new parents and all
those who are supporting families with
infants and toddlers are invited to attend.

The free event, co-hosted by Delta Early
Childhood Development Committee and
Delta Community Literacy Committee,
is designed to “raise awareness about
the importance of early childhood
development and how parents can foster
fun, play, learning and literacy as they raise
their children.”
Prize draws will be held at the event, and
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Close to $12K raised for Variety
As usual, the Ricky’s restaurant in Central
City outdid itself in its annual fundraiser for
Variety - The Children’s Charity.
The two-day event, held each year during
Variety’s Show of Hearts telethon, raised
close to $12,000 this year, said owner Avtar
Bains.
“We want to thank everyone who was
involved – from the volunteers to the staff
to the guests – for making it such a great
event,” he said.
A little more than a week afterward, Bains
said their fundraising total is still climbing
as more cheques are sent in. It’s not too late
to get involved either.
Bains said people can make cheques out
to Variety - The Children’s Charity and drop
them off at the Ricky’s in Central City, or
just donate directly to Variety.
“We’d love to get the credit,” he said, “but
the important thing is to get the money to
Variety. The real winners are the children
of B.C.”

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INDUSTRY AWARDS FOR REALTORS

Surrey’s Sutton Group-West Coast Realty
has brought home two prestigious industry
awards.
Managing broker Ishag Ismail accepted
the Corporate Realtors Make Good
Neighbours Award on behalf of the
company, which was presented at the Fraser
Valley Real Estate Board’s AGM. And in a
first, Lucky Gill, from the same Surrey office,
won the Individual Realtors Make Good
Neighbours Award.
“We’ve made it a priority to give back to
the communities where we earn our living,”
said Ismail. “Our associates continually
impress me with their willingness to donate
money and time.”
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Congratulations to Surrey power-line
technician Steve Lang and his teammates,
who placed first in the municipal division
of the International Lineman’s Rodeo and

Expo in Kansas City.
More than 200 teams from around the
world took part in timed events designed
to test the safe working practices of the
technicians, who are typically responsible for
constructing and maintaining the electrical
system for restoring power during outages.

Some of Surrey’s youngest entrepreneurs
are gearing up to make their business
debut this week with the arrival of the
second annual Young Entrepreneur Show at
Hazelgrove Elementary school.
Having started in 2012 as a way for
students to learn about business and careers,
the program throws Grade 5 students into
the thick of things by making them come
up with a business plan, then executing said
idea by having to come up with a product
to sell at the show, said Hazelgrove teacher
Kathy Deck.
“So they’ve added value to some existing
materials and gone through the process
on deciding what to make, done market
research, what could be interesting to
consumers and from that they built
product description and made a prototype,”
explained Deck. “So from there they’ve got a
certain amount of units to sell and see what
kind of profit they can make.”
The idea for the program came to

Hazelgrove from a local entrepreneur, and
it was something that Deck saw as unique
opportunity for her students to learn from.
“It works so well for teaching kids about
career education,” she said.
“Now it’s part of their curriculum to learn
about careers and how their skills will apply
to those careers and what those careers
might look like.”
According to Deck, during the day of
the show the kids will have tables set up all
throughout the school where they will be
selling their goods as per their business plan.
Any profit made will go to the children,
once they’ve paid off their start-up costs and
donated 10 per cent to a local charity.
“You can feel the energy when you walk
into the building the day of the show,” said
Deck. “The buzz is high and the kids are
excited, the parents are excited and it’s going
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One win and we’re in.
That was the mantra in four Surrey high
school gyms Monday as the Fraser Valley
class AAA senior boys basketball tourney
reached the quarter-final round.
Four Surrey schools — White Rock
Christian Academy, Tamanawis, Lord
Tweedsmuir and Enver Creek — were
still in the race for the semifinals and a
guaranteed berth in the 2013 provincial
championship tournament. White Rock
hosted Enver Creek Monday night while
Tamanawis entertained W.J. Mouat and
Lord Tweedsmuir took on Walnut Grove
in Langley. The winners will advance to
the Fraser Valley semifinals Friday, while
the losers play a sudden-death elimination
game Thursday.
Two other local teams — Fraser Heights
and North Delta — were still alive, but
faced elimination Monday against higherseeded opponents. Game results were not
available at the Now’s press deadline.
The White Rock Christian Academy
Warriors lived up to their No. 1 seeding by
posting a pair of impressive wins to open
the Valley tourney. Led by Sam Ykema’s
29 points and another 21 from Matthew
Perrin, White Rock dispatched Clayton
Heights 88-44 in their opener Wednesday.
White Rock kept the momentum going
Friday night when they beat North Delta
83-67 on a night when the Warriors
saluted their nine graduating seniors.
Vartan Tanielian held the hot hand for
White Rock with 23 points, three more
than teammate Tyus Allen.
“Down the stretch our mantra has been
tightening up in the defensive end and
creating points off of our defensive effort,”
said Warriors coach Dale Shury. “That’s
exactly what happened against North
Delta. They’re a very capable team in terms
of offensive power, but we did a good job
containing them. We held them to nine
points in the first quarter and most of our
22 points came off the fast break.”
The Warriors took on a dangerous
Enver Creek team on Monday night in a

White Rock Christian guard Tyus Allen (6) ignores a pack of North Delta Huskies
defenders as looks for a shot under the basket Friday. (Photo: GORD GOBLE)
rematch of the Surrey RCMP tournament’s
semifinal round last month. Enver Creek
opened the Valleys with an 80-53 win over
Pinetree Wednesday and then upended
Sardis 75-64 on Friday night.
The fourth-seeded Tamanawis Wildcats
had little trouble eliminating L.A.
Matheson 94-47 on Wednesday but the
Wildcats slipped on a banana peel Friday
night and needed a massive fourth-quarter
comeback to beat lightly regarded 79-72.
“We beat them earlier in the year by 35
points and our guys kind of thought the
game would be a joke,” lamented Wildcats
coach Mike McKay. “The guys snapped out
of it after the third quarter when we were
behind by 16 points and finally decided to
play. We outscored them 24-9 in the fourth
quarter and everybody looked great, but it
should never have reached that point.”

Sukjot Bains led Tamanawis with 24
points while Parm Bains and Sukhman
Sandu chipped in with 20 and 15 points,
respectively.
The Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers’ late
season surge has them on the brink of
qualifying for the provincial tournament
for the first time since 1953.
The Panthers opened the Valley
tourney by beating Semiahmoo 110-71 in
Wednesday’s opener and then outlasting
Gleneagle 65-57 on Friday night.
In elimination round play, North Delta
took on Sardis in South Surrey Monday
night while Fraser Heights took on Pitt
Meadows in Abbotsford. A loss in those
games would end the respective teams’
seasons while a win would propel them
into another sudden-death game on
Thursday.

The Surrey Eagles managed to make a long road
trip even longer by engaging in three consecutive
overtime games in BCHL action last weekend.
The Eagles came from behind to beat the Powell
River Kings 5-4 in OT on the Sunshine Coast Friday
night and then settled for a 4-4 draw in Port Alberni
Saturday before wrapping up their Island road trip
with a 4-3 win in Cowichan in yet another OT game.
Picking up five of a possible six points on the road
was enough for Surrey to clinch first place in the
BCHL’s mainland division with three regular season
games left to play.
“It was a great road trip for us,” said Eagles coach
Matt Erhart. “Obviously the biggest thing for us
was clinching first place in our division with our
results and a loss of two by other teams. That was
big because we were able to rest a few guys who are
nursing some nagging injuries. We only had three
lines and five defense Sunday and we were still able
to get the win.”
Surrey opened the weekend in Powell River Friday
where Adam Tambellini single handedly broke the
hearts of all the Kings fans in attendance. The Eagles
crafty forward scored four times including the game
winner in overtime as Surrey rallied from a 4-2
third-period deficit to pull out the win. Brady Shaw
scored the other Surrey goal.
On Saturday the Eagles staged another third
period rally to forge a 4-4 draw with the surging
Bulldogs. Tambellini was a factor again, scoring
with 14 seconds left in regulation time to send the
game into an uneventful extra session. Shaw earned
first star honours with two goals and an assist on
Tambellini’s equalizer. Michael Stenerson also
scored for Surrey while Eagles netminder Michael
Santaguida stopped 48 shots.
Saturday’s tie sewed up first place in the division
for Surrey, allowing Erhart to rest some dinged
up veterans for their final stop of the weekend in
Cowichan. This time Surrey had a 3-1 third-period
lead only to have the host Capitals storm back and
for the extra session. Shaw settled the matter by
bagging his fourth goal of the weekend on his first
overtime shift to lift Surrey to the win.
Stenerson, Nicolas Pierog and Drew Best also
scored for Surrey.
The Eagles have a light slate this weekend with
just one game against visiting Cowichan on Sunday
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The Dragons’ lone loss of the
Valley tourney came at the hands of
W.J. Mouat in the second round, but
after that, Fleetwood Park beat their
next three opponents by a combined
52 points to earn the high wildcard
seeding for a shot at the provincials.
In their first do-or-die game, the
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Surrey gangster charged in Bacon murder
Christopher Poon

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A Surrey man is one of three gangsters
charged with the 2011 murder of Red
Scorpion Jonathan Bacon in Kelowna.

Colebrook Road

Another
body found
on rural road

Twenty-five-year old Jujhar Singh
Khun-Khun of Surrey has been charged
with first-degree murder and attempted
murder. Jason Thomas McBride, 37, and
Michael Jones are also charged. All three are
reported to have connections with the late

Sukh Dhak, who had been killed in a gang
shooting in Vancouver this past fall.
Bacon and several associates were shot at
during a busy day in Kelowna’s downtown
area in August 2011.
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Surrey’s rural Colebrook Road has
seen an extraordinary amount of death
in recent years.
The latest tragedy revealed itself just
after noon Sunday, when a motorist
found the charred body of 29-year-old
Delta resident Amritpal Saran, at the side
of the road.
“We’re still looking into the motive,”
Cpl. Adam MacIntosh, a spokesman for
the Integrated Homicide Investigation
Team, said of Surrey’s eighth murder this
year. “The reasons for his death remain a
mystery.”
MacIntosh said Saran, whose body was
found in the 12100-block of Colebrook
Road, was “known to police,” but to their
knowledge wasn’t associated to any gang.

The 2011 shooting killed Bacon and
injured those he was with. No passersby
were injured, but the boldness of the hit
reverberated throughout the province.
“This violent incident rocked the city of
Kelowna in an act so brazen it might have
been mistaken for an action movie,” said
Combined Forces Special Enforcement
Unit Chief Supt. Dan Malo during a news
conference to announce the arrests. “We

were all appalled by the public nature of this
reckless act.”
According to Malo, since Bacon’s death,
investigators had been working around the
clock to tie people to the case, culminating
in Monday’s announcement.
“We’ve had over 50 investigators on this
case (at any given time),” said Malo.
All three suspects are known to police and
have ties to various criminal organizations
throughout the province.
“All three individuals charged have in

the past been associate to several different
groups,” said Malo, noting that it would
be difficult to describe any of them as
belonging to just one group.
Khun-Khun has been shot at twice in the
past, once in September 2011 and again last
month while out with other gang associates.
He also has a number of incidents on his
record, including having been arrested in
Abbotsford in relation to a shooting and
having been pulled over in August 2011 with
a cache of drugs and $1,700. In 2007 Khun-

Khun was also convicted of kidnapping
following an incident that involved him
holding a person hostage at gunpoint for
several hours.
“In my many years investigating gangs
and criminal cases, the one thing that
always stands out is that organized crime
groups do attract broken people,” said Malo.
“They’re looking for connections, love and
acceptance. They demand loyalty and give
little in return.”

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‘Now’ and its
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remier Christy Clark spoke before a
ballroom of Surrey’s biggest names in
politics and business at Eaglequest Golf
Course on Thursday morning, two days after
the B.C. Liberals delivered the 2013 provincial
budget.
The premier was in town for a formal
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Editor Beau Simpson has
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Provincial politics

Who’s running in Surrey, Delta and White Rock
Tom Zytaruk

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The New Democrats have their MLA
candidates all selected in Surrey’s eight
provincial ridings and Delta North while the
governing Liberals have yet to secure two more
candidates, and the Green Party and B.C.
Conservatives still have to find seven more
candidates each.
The NDP will be fielding four incumbents in
Surrey, and the Liberals two. Three incumbents
– Kevin Falcon (Liberal, Surrey-Cloverdale),
Dave Hayer (Liberal, Surrey-Tynehead) and Guy
Gentner (NDP, Delta North) – have decided
not to seek re-election in the May 14 provincial
election.
With no incumbent running, four local seats
– Delta North, Surrey-Cloverdale, SurreyPanorama and Surrey-Tynehead – are wide open.
Here’s who is running, as of press time: In
Surrey-Whalley, NDP incumbent Bruce Ralston,
a lawyer by trade who was first elected in 2005,
will be challenged by Liberal Kuljeet Kaur, who
works as a realtor and Punjabi radio talk show
host.

So far, two Delta municipal councillors are
vying for Delta North: Scott Hamilton (Liberal)
and Sylvia Bishop (NDP).
For Delta municipal councillors, an eventual
run for provincial office seems to be the thing to
do. Before he was elected MLA, Gentner was a
Delta councillor, as was incumbent Delta South
Independent Vicki Huntington, not to mention
the man hoping to unseat her, Liberal candidate
Bruce McDonald.
Meanwhile, Liberal cabinet minister Stephanie
Cadieux, first elected in Panorama in 2009,
hopes to pick up where Falcon left off in SurreyCloverdale. Her NDP rival Harry Kooner, a City
of Surrey employee, won the NDP candidacy for
Cloverdale on Sunday, at a nomination contest
attended by about 850 people.
The Green Party of B.C. continues to look for
a candidate for Surrey-Cloverdale after Dave
Blair, who planned to run there, died of cancer
two weeks ago.
New Democrat incumbent Jagrup Brar
(2004) is seeking re-election in SurreyFleetwood, challenged by Liberal candidate and
Langley City Mayor Peter Fassbender, and B.C.
Conservative Murali Krishnan – a notary public.

The NDP’s Amrik Mahil will try to take
Surrey-Panorama Ridge back from the Liberals,
who have not yet chosen a candidate after
former MP Sukh Dhaliwal dropped out of the
race. Sara Sharma is the Green candidate in
Surrey-Panorama.
Liberal MLA Gordon Hogg, first elected in
1997, is seeking re-election in Surrey-White
Rock, challenged by the NDP’s Susan Keeping.
Incumbent NDP MLA Sue Hammell (2005,
and 1991 to 2001) will campaign to secure her
seat in Surrey-Green Timbers. So far, her only
rival is Green candidate Richard Hosein.
Finally, the NDP will defend Surrey-Newton,
where incumbent Harry Bains is being
challenged by Liberal candidate Sukminder Virk
and Conservative Satinder Singh, a financial
advisor. In Surrey-Tynehead, the NDP’s Avtar
Bains will square off against Langley RCMP
Insp. Amrik Virk, who is running for the
Liberals there.
B.C. Conservatives leader John Cummins
says his party will “absolutely” run a full slate in
Surrey. “We’ve got prospects I think in most,” he
said Monday.

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Surrey man
charged with
stabbings
A 23-year-old Surrey man
is facing multiple assault
and weapons-related
charges after three people
were stabbed in Vancouver’s
Chinatown on Friday night.
The suspect’s name had
still not been released by
press time and a judge had
ordered a publication ban
on evidence presented at a
bail hearing Saturday.

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upon South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale
MP Russ Hiebert’s office in South Surrey
Thursday to let it be known they are against
proposed changes to Canada’s Medical
Marijuana Access Regulations.
Consisting of supporters and users of
medicinal marijuana, the group of about 10
stood outside of Hiebert’s office for half an
hour starting at 11 a.m. as part of a nationwide movement to raise the issue at local
MP offices.
The issue at hand is a proposal by the
federal government to phase out all personal
production of medical marijuana by March
2014, essentially making it so users will have
no choice but to get their medicine from
commercial dispensaries. Currently, users
can apply for a licence to grow their own
marijuana at home or choose to make their
purchases at a dispensary or private seller.

David Hutchinson, whose 19-year-old
daughter is a user of medicinal marijuana,
came out to show his concern over the
proposed changes.
“These changes would make it
unaffordable for those who take medical
marijuana, I have a daughter who takes
it and this would make the medicine
unaffordable by essentially making it go
from $200 a month to over $3,000 a month,”
he said. “They’re taking away people’s
opportunities to grow it themselves or buy
from private growers and that makes it
unaffordable for some users.”
Hutchinson said his daughter uses
medicinal marijuana to relieve the
symptoms caused by brain tumours.
For Joy Davies, who suffers from
fibromyalgia and grows her own medicinal
marijuana, she’s concerned that the changes
would essentially make her a criminal for
growing her own medicine.
“If I have to pay for my medication that’s
$6,000 a month I don’t have,” she said.
Currently there are nearly 30,000 people
in Canada licensed to grow medical
marijuana, with 11,500 in B.C.

PARCEL TAX ROLL REVIEW PANEL MEETING
TAKE NOTICE THAT the Parcel Tax Roll Review Panel meeting will be held on,
MONDAY, March 18, 2013 at 10:30 AM in the Executive Boardroom at the
City Hall, 14245 –56 Avenue, Surrey, B.C.

Police have yet to identify a suspect in the killing of a
Whalley man whose body was found inside a car that had been
parked in front of a Newton elementary school for days on end.
Vimal Chand, 29, was last seen leaving his family’s home in
Whalley on Saturday, Feb. 16 and was reported missing to the
Surrey RCMP on the following day.
It was believed Chand was driving his family’s car, a grey
2000 Toyota Corolla with B.C. licence plate number 948 FTP.
Police said a resident found Chand’s body early Wednesday
evening, inside a car that had been parked at 66th Avenue and
140th Street, across from Hyland Elementary school. The car
had been there for four days.
“As to why it wasn’t discovered earlier, I can’t really
comment,” IHIT Cpl. Bari Emam said.
He wouldn’t confirm if Chand’s body was found in the
family car, or where it was seated. Police are also holding
back the cause of death, Emam said. Nor would he reveal if
investigators believe Chand died inside the vehicle, or was
killed on site.
Police ask people with information to contact the Integrated
Homicide Investigation Team’s tip line at 1-877-551-IHIT
(4448).
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Saran’s body was found a mere two blocks
way from where the body of Jaskaran Singh
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Sandhu’s body was discovered in the grass
beside Colebrook Road, in the 12300-block,
after police received a 911 call.
MacIntosh said investigators believe
the deaths are unrelated. Police are asking
people with information on either case to
call the IHIT tip line at 1-877-551-IHIT
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Colebrook Road runs from Mud Bay
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into Cloverdale, ending in sprawling fields,
only to resume near the Surrey-Langley
border. If the road could share its secrets,
it would bear witness to crashes involving
trains, cars and bicycles, as well as murders,
suicides, sexual assaults and stabbings.
❚ In March 2009 shooting victim Marc
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19500-block of Colebrook Road.
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❚ In September 1992, the body of 34-yearold Sital Singh Jhattu was found in a ditch
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machine operator had been shot. A day after
he was reported missing, Jhattu’s car was
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B.C. politics

NDP faces
interesting
budget call
InTheHouse
Keith Baldrey

T

he evidence is in:
British Columbians
have collectively hit
the “off ” switch to anything
the B.C. Liberal government
has to say.
Nothing the B.C. Liberals
have tried for months has
improved their standing
with voters, who now
appear firmly entrenched in
the anti-B.C. Liberal camp.
The multi-million
taxpayer ad campaign that
made questionable boasts
about job creation has been
a dud.
The nasty attack ad on
NDP leader Adrian Dix has
had no impact.
The throne speech was
a flop. The budget fell flat
with the public, who appear
to have collectively flipped
the “off ” switch on anything
the government has to say.
Two recent polls back up
these assertions.
One, by Ipsos-Reid,
showed that just 12 per
cent of those knew the
government had tabled a
new budget believed the
government when it claimed
it was “balanced.”

The latest Angus Reid
poll provides a mountain
of findings that show the
B.C. Liberals continue to
be mired in a swamp of
negativity from voters. The
party trails the NDP by 16
points, and has lost about
one-third of the people who
voted for it in 2009.
Most tellingly, the Angus
Reid poll showed that 59 per
cent of the electorate want a
new government. That is an
astounding figure, one that
must send shudders through
the B.C. Liberal camp.
But the governing party is
pressing on, and has decided
to make its alleged fiscal
prowess the central theme of
its election platform.
You may well ask how
a government that has
wracked up four deficits
in a row (and maybe even
five) and almost doubled
the provincial debt can
expect to be re-elected on
a platform that says it’s the
only party to be trusted
to manage government
finances properly.
Yet that is precisely the
seemingly contradictory
argument the B.C. Liberals
are putting forth as we head
toward the election.
Unfortunately for the
ruling party, its track record
for managing finances is
hardly a stellar one.

Despite their claims of
being financial geniuses,
the B.C. Liberals have
brought home seven deficit
budgets during their time in
office, and have pushed the
provincial debt level from
$34 billion when they were
first elected to $63 billion
next year.
And since absolutely
nothing has worked for
the B.C. Liberals, there is
little reason to think the
public is going to suddenly
start listening to their
arguments about financial
management.
The only variable left in
the game has nothing to do
with the B.C. Liberals.
Instead, it’s all about the
NDP. Only a major stumble
or scandal in the NDP
camp is likely to derail their
election chances. The gap in
popularity between the two
parties is so huge that only
a self-inflicted wound can
take the NDP out.

The NDP is constantly
battling its stereotyped
image as a left-wing, taxand-spend party. Certainly,
its time in office in the
1990s won’t help it dispel
that image, as it raised taxes
considerably and balanced
the books a mere two times.
And now the NDP
is facing an interesting
challenge. After branding
the B.C. Liberals’ latest
budget as “phony” and
“bogus,” it can hardly put
the same fiscal plan in front
of voters.
It’s more than likely
the NDP will have to put
forth a budget that shows
a deficit next year, not a
“phony” surplus like the
B.C. Liberals’ plan. The key
question may be, just how
high a deficit can the party
get away with?
I suspect something
less than a $500 million
deficit may strike voters as
reasonable. After all, the

current fiscal year shows a
$1.3-billion deficit on the
B.C. Liberals’ watch, so a
reduction of almost twothirds may prove acceptable.
But how the NDP gets
to that figure is unclear
and perhaps problematic.
They’ve condemned the
government’s sell-off of
$475 million worth of assets
and its taking of a $245
million dividend from B.C.
Hydro, plus it has suggested
health care is about $235
million short.
It adds up to a deficit of
about $750 million, which
may strike some as too high

(and I haven’t even included
the various demands from
NDP caucus members to
increase spending in other
areas; party leader Adrian
Dix would be wise to muzzle
his caucus’ spending calls).
Of course, none of this
may matter.
If the general public keeps
that “off ” switch to anything
the B.C. Liberals have to say,
that big gap between them
and the New Democrats
won’t be closing come
election day.
Keith Baldrey is chief political
reporter for Global BC

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Immigrant job funding a slap in face
The Editor,
Re: “Immigrants have ally,” the Now, Feb. 21.
Seriously? Funding for newly landed
immigrants to the tune of $667,000?
I certainly agree that everyone should
have an opportunity to work, but to have
the way paved is an outright slap in the
face to all the educated, capable taxpaying
residents who are getting the shaft watching
jobs pulled out from under them and taken
by newcomers.
Once again, the city of Surrey has ceased
to amaze me by welcoming immigrants and
refugees with open arms while shoving aside
the right person for the job.
I wonder what the reaction would be
if I, a born and raised British Columbian
who only speaks English, went to a foreign
country and had help taking a job from a
local? Shame on you Surrey.
Blair Martin, Cloverdale

Thanks for supporting
blues in White Rock
The Editor,
Re: “Powder Blues Band still doin’ it right,
just less often,” the Now, Feb. 7.
On behalf of the White Rock Blues
Society, I want to express our gratitude to
Tom Zillich and the Now for covering our

show at the Pacific Inn Resort on Feb. 16.
On the Thursday before the long
weekend, as B.C. celebrated its first
Family Day, Tom wrote an interesting and
informative article after interviewing Tom
Lavin of Powder Blues Band fame and his
efforts to help the next generation of blues
artist, James “Buddy” Rogers.
On the following Tuesday – the first day
we could determine what our online ticket
sales status was at the Surrey Arts Centre
– we found an additional 60 tickets had sold
since the previous Friday. Within another
two days, we had sold out the show.
As a non-profit organization, our funding
is limited to 20 per cent of ticket sales after
fixed costs, with 80 per cent going to the
artists.
Our mandate is to keep the blues alive.
Without your paper’s interest and support
for the arts, people wouldn’t be made aware
of the live music events taking place in our
community.
Even though we have a weekly newsletter
going out to more than 650 blues fans, that
hardly scratches the surface of the number
of music fans out there.
Tom’s article reached many interested
readers who bought tickets and made the
show a huge success. Many thanks for the
work you do in servicing the community.
Rod Dranfield
President, White Rock Blues Society

Wi-Fi ‘allergy’ is not
accepted as condition
The Editor,
Re: “Some students allergic to Wi-Fi, says
Surrey dad,” the Now, Feb. 19.
The self-described medical condition
is not accepted by the entire medical
community... not yet.
Quoting from Wikipedia: “...self-described
sufferers of electromagnetic hypersensitivity
are unable to distinguish between exposure
to real and fake electromagnetic fields, and
it is not recognized as a medical condition
by the medical or scientific communities.”
Sources are on the Wiki page. Perhaps an
unbiased article would have mentioned that.
James Hogan
Vice Principal, Surrey Connect

Money for mailouts
could be better spent
The Editor,
I want to complain about Russ Heibert
and his lame mailouts. I have received so
many over the years... and now he is asking
peoples opinions on abortion?
Another thing – what is the cost of these
mailouts? I wonder, if all local Conservative

MPs redirected the monies used to send
these useless mailouts and devoted it to the
closed down coast guard station, could it be
saved from the chopping block?
Wayne Collins, Surrey

Taxpayers shouldn’t
subsidize child care
The Editor,
Re: “Don’t make me pay for your child’s
daycare,” the Now letters, Feb. 19.
Thank you for printing this letter. Too
often, papers print one-sided letters and the
average taxpayer is forgotten. Our family’s
taxes already pay for low-income families
(that qualify) for a $35-a-day subsidy per
child for daycare. Sure, it would be great if
childcare was subsidized but what seems to
not be mentioned is the money comes from
us, the taxpayer. Nothing is free.
Childcare is expensive. My choice was to
stay home, raise our children and live off my
husband’s salary. It is not easy, but we live
within our means. I love being a stay-athome mom and I realize not everyone can
do what I do, but that’s my job – to raise my
children. It’s not my job to pay for you to
have someone else watch yours.
Kris Winter, Delta

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LEFT: Four-year-old pals
Brody (left) and Tristan
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Social” special event for
kids Tuesday, Feb. 19
at Kensington Prairie
Community Centre.
(Photo: LISA KING)

ABOVE: Cadet Daniel Colosie (right), of Surrey, and the 767 Dearman Air
Cadet squadron flip pancakes Saturday, Feb. 23 during a charity breakfast
served to low-income people in the Whalley area, at the corner of 135th Street
and 106th Avenue. (Photo: GORD GOBLE)
RIGHT: Former City of Surrey councillor Judy Higginbotham and Gordon
Hogg, MLA for Surrey-White Rock, attended an Oscar awards party Sunday,
Feb. 24 at 5 Doors Down restaurant and bar, on Marine Drive. For more
photos from this event, a fundraiser for Royal Canadian Theatre Company
programs, see the Around Town feature in this Thursday’s edition of the Now.
(Photo: GORD GOBLE)

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LEFT: Rotary Club of North
Delta members Lornell
Ridley and John Shepherd
move dictionaries for
delivery to Grade 3 students
in the area.
In North Delta, Rotarians
have been busy distributing
more than 800 dictionaries
to every Grade 3 student in
the area, at 14 elementary
schools.
Project organizer Lornell
Ridley said it’s an amazing
experience to stand at
the front of a classroom

and hand out a Rotary
dictionary to every child.
“For some students, it is
their first personal book,”
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club’s commitment to the
children of North Delta.
Without exception, the
principals, teachers and
students are delighted

A new, state-of-the-art music room is a
key part of a construction project at Regent
Christian Academy in Surrey.
A Performing Arts and Technology Centre
will be built at the school over the spring and
summer months.
The $800,000 project involves new space
for performing arts disciplines, including a

to receive their gift of a
dictionary – it is theirs to
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Rotary’s international
Dictionary Project, founded
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recording studio, band rehearsal space, a studio
theatre and sound stage.
“It’s very exciting for the school,” said Jamie
Garland, director of development at Regent.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held
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A yearly book sale and
hundreds of donated
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pair of local Rotary clubs
busy this month.
The “Big Book Sale”
hosted by the Rotary Club
of White Rock is set to run
for a week at Semiahmoo
Shopping Centre, from
March 3 to 10.
Volunteer-staffed tables
will be filled with a wide
variety of donated books at
the annual sale, which has
raised close to $1 million
during its 31 years.
“This money has assisted
local organizations in
providing services to the
old, the young and the
challenged,” Ramona
Kaptyn, the club’s
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the Now.
Books donated for the
sale can be dropped off at
the shopping centre, in a bin
near the Cobs Bread store.
For more details, visit www.
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“Often rare old editions
are amongst the donations,”
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library.” For more information, visit
www.surreylibraries.ca/about/5393.
aspx or contact Eva Touzard at eva.
touzard@pics.bc.ca.

White Rock/Surrey Chapter
of CARP - A New Vision of
Aging for Canada is seeking new
Executive Board members. For
info, contact chair Ramona at carp.
whiterock.surrey@gmail.com or
778-294-0787.
White Rock RCMP Community
Policing is looking for volunteers.
“If you have 100 hours a year to
spare and want to join our team,
please contact Julia Everett at
778-593-3611. Activities include Van

Patrol, Bike Patrol, Speed Watch and
more. Applicants must be prepared
to pass a security assessment, which
normally takes about four months to
process.”

music on the spot. No experience
necessary and we have some
percussion instruments for you to
play with.” Gatherings are Thursdays
from 1 to 2 p.m. at White Rock
Community Centre (hall B), 15154
Russell Ave. Drop-in fee is $3.
Old-time dance events at
Sunnyside Hall at 1 p.m. every
Monday (from Labour Day to June),
corner of 18th Ave. & 154 St., South
Surrey. Live music (piano, violin and
two guitars). All seniors welcome.

Info: 604- 538-5657 or 604-575-8236.

HEALTH
Wisdom Circle Series: “An
invigorating journey for boomers+;
from age-ing to sage-ing that
focuses on maturing, aging, and the
changing role of elders in society.
Events continue on Mar. 2, 9, 16;
9:30 a.m. to noon at Sunnyside
United, 15639 24th Ave. Cost $5.
Feb. 23 topic: Our Lives as the Cycle
of One-Year: harvesting wisdom
from life experiences; appreciation
for examining one’s life and for
the sharing of stories. Registration
information at www.sagewise.net or
call Charles 604-538-7842.

CLUBS/GROUPS

WELIVEHERE.
WEGIVEHERE.

CHARITABLE SOCIETY

Our City is home to over 70
charitable organizations doing
work on behalf of the residents
of our city. Help us to give where
we live.

The Surrey Slamfest Wrestling Program was initiated in 2001
after Daniel Igali won Canada’s ﬁrst ever Olympic Gold medal
in Wrestling. It began with twelve students at one school and
the program now reaches over 2,000 youth in Surrey’s schools.
Slamfest Wrestling has expanded into an annual tournament as
well as various wrestling camps and workshops for elementary
students. The Slamfest program was developed as a ‘Stay in
School Youth Program’ for at-risk students, and has made a
positive difference in many lives.

For more information visit us online at

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The Rock Christian Toastmasters
Club meets in White Rock/S. Surrey.
“We are welcoming visitors and new
members any Tuesday until summer
recess at the end of June.” Meetings
7:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Peninsula
Estates rec. centre at 15135 St. (151A
St.) and 20th Ave. “Improve public
speaking ability, increase leadership
skills, learn listening skills, and make
new friends. Everyone welcome.”
Info: Call Deanne, 604-542-1183.
South Surrey Garden Club: Next
meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 27 with
guest speaker Barry Hoffer, on topic
of maple trees. Visitors are welcome;
$3 fee may be credited toward
annual membership fee of $20. Club
meets at 7:30 p.m. every fourth
Wednesday (except August and
December) at St. Mark’s Anglican
Church, 12953 20th Avenue. “We
have a very active and full program
with great speakers, field trips and
workshops.” For info, contact Kathy
at 604-250-1745.
MSOS (Mixed Singles Over
Sixty): This social club, for active
men and women 60 years and over,
welcomes new members –
companions for walking, golf dining,
dancing, theatre, travel, more. Info,
contact Pat at 604-531-3065 or
Colin, 604-538-7799. Info: www.
senioroversixtyclub.weebly.com.
Sew N’ So Quilters: Group meets
Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at
Sunnyside hall in South Surrey (1845
154th St., at Bakerview Park). Info:
Pauline Bruce, 604-596-4413.
Surrey Trekkers Volkssport
Club offers walks mid-week and
weekends for adults of all ages, for
fun, fitness and friendship. Info: Call
Sandi at 604-584-2980 or visit www.
surreytrekkers.com.
Newcomers Club of White
Rock and South Surrey is a
club for women who are new to
the area. The club meets the first
Tuesday of the month (September
to May) from 7 to 9 p.m. at the
Mount Olive Lutheran Church, 2350
148 St., Surrey. First visit is free.
Membership is $30 per year. Visit
www.wrssnewcomers.com for more
information.
White Rock and District Garden
Club welcomes new members. Club
info: Eileen Davidson, 604-538-0496.
Cloverdale Garden Club meets on
the second Thursday of each month
(from September to June) at Clayton
hall, 18513 70th Ave., 7 p.m. Info:
Lynne, 604-576-6338.

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Surrey students and anti-bullying
supporters are gearing up to look pretty in
pink this Wednesday, Feb. 27 for the sixth
annual Pink Shirt Day.
Created as a way to show solidarity
against bullying, Pink Shirt Day is a
Canada-wide initiative started when two
teens in Nova Scotia stood up against bullies
in their school by wearing pink shirts when
a fellow student was bullied for sporting the
same colour.
Since then, the anti-bullying movement
has spread, and has now become an
annual event with the ultimate goal of
raising awareness and eliminating bullying
everywhere.
“Pink Shirt Day is a great opportunity
for us to engage the community and

raise awareness about bullying and the
devastating effect it can have on people,”
said Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts. “Bullying
should not be tolerated in schools,
workplaces, online, or anywhere in our
communities. And we want everyone to
know there is help and support available to
those who are being bullied.”
In Surrey, the official pink shirts will sport
a design by Guildford Park student Bea
Venzon following a city-wide contest held
last month by the Surrey school district.
“It’s just that bullying is one small thing
that could have lifelong repercussions for
people so preventing it would have such an
impact on someone’s life,” said Venzon at
the time. “Nobody deserves to get bullied
for their race, sexual orientation, financial
status, disability, gender, religion, perceived
subculture or for anything at all.”
For more information on how to get
involved and to obtain an official pink shirt,
go to www.pinkshirtday.ca. Proceeds will go
toward various anti-bullying initiatives in
British Columbia.

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Community leaders honoured at the South
Surrey White Rock Chamber of Commerce
Business Excellence Awards on Jan. 31,
2013 at Hazelmere Golf & Tennis Club

employment opportunities.
Nowhere in Canada, in any
city, can it be said that an
average of 125 Business and
1200 new residents a month
are moving into its borders,
we can! Are there threats to
our business? Yes, cross border
and online shopping. When
you shop abroad the loss to
our communities is far beyond
the small saving you may
realize. The taxes alone that
the business community pays
keep your personal income
tax down. An individual can
make a difference to help

Who said we are in a
recession or an economic
slowdown? As I drove to work
this morning I counted 12
construction cranes, in the
eyes of an economist these
prehistoric ﬁgures in our
skyline indicate the health
of a vibrant economy. Each
of these cranes represents
tens of millions of dollars
being invested into our city.
Along my drive I was held up
in trafﬁc multiple times for
major capital projects that are
improving our transportation
corridors and creating many

keep our community exciting
and vibrant by shopping and
volunteering locally. Your
support of local businesses
increases employment,
healthcare services, roadways,
education plus many other
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encourage and challenge YOU
to get involved in building
our communities. The South
Surrey /White
Rock Chamber
of Commerce
have a number of
new committees
being formed that

will focus on the economic
development of our region.
These committees will require
volunteers in a variety of
capacities and I welcome you
to get involved. Please contact
me by email if you have any
questions or comments about
The Surrey/White Rock
Chamber Of Commerce and
remember to SHOP LOCAL.

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Some of Surrey’s youngest entrepreneurs
are gearing up to make their business
debut this week with the arrival of the
second annual Young Entrepreneur Show at
Hazelgrove Elementary school.
Having started in 2012 as a way for
students to learn about business and careers,
the program throws Grade 5 students into
the thick of things by making them come
up with a business plan, then executing said
idea by having to come up with a product
to sell at the show, said Hazelgrove teacher
Kathy Deck.
“So they’ve added value to some existing
materials and gone through the process
on deciding what to make, done market
research, what could be interesting to
consumers and from that they built
product description and made a prototype,”
explained Deck. “So from there they’ve got a
certain amount of units to sell and see what
kind of profit they can make.”
The idea for the program came to

Hazelgrove from a local entrepreneur, and
it was something that Deck saw as unique
opportunity for her students to learn from.
“It works so well for teaching kids about
career education,” she said.
“Now it’s part of their curriculum to learn
about careers and how their skills will apply
to those careers and what those careers
might look like.”
According to Deck, during the day of
the show the kids will have tables set up all
throughout the school where they will be
selling their goods as per their business plan.
Any profit made will go to the children,
once they’ve paid off their start-up costs and
donated 10 per cent to a local charity.
“You can feel the energy when you walk
into the building the day of the show,” said
Deck. “The buzz is high and the kids are
excited, the parents are excited and it’s going
to be quite phenomenal.”
The Young Entrepreneur Show will be
open to the public and will run from 1 to 3
p.m. on Thursday at Hazelgrove Elementary
school.
cpoon@thenownewspaper.com

Dancers pop open umbrellas for a special song during a recent afternoon of music hosted
by White Rock Trad Jazz Society at Crescent Beach Legion hall. The group gathers at
the 128th Street venue for live music and dancing every Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. For the
band schedule and other details, visit www.whiterocktradjazz.com or call 604-591-7275.
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One win and we’re in.
That was the mantra in four Surrey high
school gyms Monday as the Fraser Valley
class AAA senior boys basketball tourney
reached the quarter-final round.
Four Surrey schools — White Rock
Christian Academy, Tamanawis, Lord
Tweedsmuir and Enver Creek — were
still in the race for the semifinals and a
guaranteed berth in the 2013 provincial
championship tournament. White Rock
hosted Enver Creek Monday night while
Tamanawis entertained W.J. Mouat and
Lord Tweedsmuir took on Walnut Grove
in Langley. The winners will advance to
the Fraser Valley semifinals Friday, while
the losers play a sudden-death elimination
game Thursday.
Two other local teams — Fraser Heights
and North Delta — were still alive, but
faced elimination Monday against higherseeded opponents. Game results were not
available at the Now’s press deadline.
The White Rock Christian Academy
Warriors lived up to their No. 1 seeding by
posting a pair of impressive wins to open
the Valley tourney. Led by Sam Ykema’s
29 points and another 21 from Matthew
Perrin, White Rock dispatched Clayton
Heights 88-44 in their opener Wednesday.
White Rock kept the momentum going
Friday night when they beat North Delta
83-67 on a night when the Warriors
saluted their nine graduating seniors.
Vartan Tanielian held the hot hand for
White Rock with 23 points, three more
than teammate Tyus Allen.
“Down the stretch our mantra has been
tightening up in the defensive end and
creating points off of our defensive effort,”
said Warriors coach Dale Shury. “That’s
exactly what happened against North
Delta. They’re a very capable team in terms
of offensive power, but we did a good job
containing them. We held them to nine
points in the first quarter and most of our
22 points came off the fast break.”
The Warriors took on a dangerous
Enver Creek team on Monday night in a

White Rock Christian guard Tyus Allen (6) ignores a pack of North Delta Huskies
defenders as looks for a shot under the basket Friday. (Photo: GORD GOBLE)
rematch of the Surrey RCMP tournament’s
semifinal round last month. Enver Creek
opened the Valleys with an 80-53 win over
Pinetree Wednesday and then upended
Sardis 75-64 on Friday night.
The fourth-seeded Tamanawis Wildcats
had little trouble eliminating L.A.
Matheson 94-47 on Wednesday but the
Wildcats slipped on a banana peel Friday
night and needed a massive fourth-quarter
comeback to beat lightly regarded 79-72.
“We beat them earlier in the year by 35
points and our guys kind of thought the
game would be a joke,” lamented Wildcats
coach Mike McKay. “The guys snapped out
of it after the third quarter when we were
behind by 16 points and finally decided to
play. We outscored them 24-9 in the fourth
quarter and everybody looked great, but it
should never have reached that point.”

Sukjot Bains led Tamanawis with 24
points while Parm Bains and Sukhman
Sandu chipped in with 20 and 15 points,
respectively.
The Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers’ late
season surge has them on the brink of
qualifying for the provincial tournament
for the first time since 1953.
The Panthers opened the Valley
tourney by beating Semiahmoo 110-71 in
Wednesday’s opener and then outlasting
Gleneagle 65-57 on Friday night.
In elimination round play, North Delta
took on Sardis in South Surrey Monday
night while Fraser Heights took on Pitt
Meadows in Abbotsford. A loss in those
games would end the respective teams’
seasons while a win would propel them
into another sudden-death game on
Thursday.

The Surrey Eagles managed to make a long road
trip even longer by engaging in three consecutive
overtime games in BCHL action last weekend.
The Eagles came from behind to beat the Powell
River Kings 5-4 in OT on the Sunshine Coast Friday
night and then settled for a 4-4 draw in Port Alberni
Saturday before wrapping up their Island road trip
with a 4-3 win in Cowichan in yet another OT game.
Picking up five of a possible six points on the road
was enough for Surrey to clinch first place in the
BCHL’s mainland division with three regular season
games left to play.
“It was a great road trip for us,” said Eagles coach
Matt Erhart. “Obviously the biggest thing for us
was clinching first place in our division with our
results and a loss of two by other teams. That was
big because we were able to rest a few guys who are
nursing some nagging injuries. We only had three
lines and five defense Sunday and we were still able
to get the win.”
Surrey opened the weekend in Powell River Friday
where Adam Tambellini single handedly broke the
hearts of all the Kings fans in attendance. The Eagles
crafty forward scored four times including the game
winner in overtime as Surrey rallied from a 4-2
third-period deficit to pull out the win. Brady Shaw
scored the other Surrey goal.
On Saturday the Eagles staged another third
period rally to forge a 4-4 draw with the surging
Bulldogs. Tambellini was a factor again, scoring
with 14 seconds left in regulation time to send the
game into an uneventful extra session. Shaw earned
first star honours with two goals and an assist on
Tambellini’s equalizer. Michael Stenerson also
scored for Surrey while Eagles netminder Michael
Santaguida stopped 48 shots.
Saturday’s tie sewed up first place in the division
for Surrey, allowing Erhart to rest some dinged
up veterans for their final stop of the weekend in
Cowichan. This time Surrey had a 3-1 third-period
lead only to have the host Capitals storm back and
for the extra session. Shaw settled the matter by
bagging his fourth goal of the weekend on his first
overtime shift to lift Surrey to the win.
Stenerson, Nicolas Pierog and Drew Best also
scored for Surrey.
The Eagles have a light slate this weekend with
just one game against visiting Cowichan on Sunday
(March 3) at South Surrey Arena.

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Dragons close in on provincial berth

The Fleetwood Park Dragons are
one win away from qualifying for
the 2013 B.C. Senior Girls’ AAA
Basketball Championships after a
fifth-place finish in the Fraser Valley
championships last week.
As the fifth seed out of the Valley,
the Dragons must win a wildcard
game tonight (Feb. 26) in Victoria
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The Dragons’ lone loss of the
Valley tourney came at the hands of
W.J. Mouat in the second round, but
after that, Fleetwood Park beat their
next three opponents by a combined
52 points to earn the high wildcard
seeding for a shot at the provincials.
In their first do-or-die game, the
Dragons toasted Chilliwack 64-40
followed by a convincing 64-50 win
over Yale.

Shilpa Khanna scored 22 points and
Simran Bir added 18 in the win over
Yale.
The Dragons then nailed down the
Valley 5 seeding with a 76-62 decision
over MEI on Saturday night.
Bir led the way with 20 points while
Cyrille Butac helped out with 17.
Khanna was Fleetwood lone
representative on the Fraser Valley
tournament all-star team.

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1293

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